Pitblado Lectures Talk
On Friday November 6, 2015 I was honoured to be invited to be on a panel and give a talk at the Pitblado Lectures in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This 55th edition of the Pitblado Lectures was put on by the Law Society of Manitoba, The Manitoba Bar Association, and The University of Manitoba Faculty of Law (http://www.pitbladolectures.com/). This years theme was “From Blackacre to Blackberry: Redefining Property and Ownership”.
Attached are a set of post-final slides from my presentation as well as a short written piece. Thanks to Professors Doug Harris and Graham Reynolds of the Allard School of Law @UBC and Professor Katie Sykes of the TRU Faculty of Law for their comments on a draft of the latter.
Both the slides and the short writing take on the utility of defining virtual goods as property, particularly in a “Post I.P.” world effectively ruled by contracts. The slides also go on to explore the contradictions between patent law and copyright law which seem to favour innovators over creators for (IMHO) no particular or particularly good reason. Much of what you will see is consistent with things we have talked about in class but their recasting may prove useful to you in some way.
jon
Class 8 – 11/4/15: “From Wheelbarrows to Holodecks” & Steve Rechtshaffner
Video and slides.
jon
Class 7 – 10/28/15: “What’s it all about…EULA?” & Jim Alam/Rob Edgar
Video and slides follow…
jon
Class 6 – 10/21/15: “Frictions & Fictions: Consumer Contracts & Creative Constraints ” & Roch Ripley
Slides and video below:
jon
Class 5 – 10/14/15: “Consumers & Users As Creators & Connectors” & Mavis Dixon
Video and PowerPoints below. A few little sound glitches and, yes, I did decide to rename my slides after the fact…
jon
Class 4 – 10/7/15: “Right to the CreaTE or Rights to the Creation” & Brian Dartnell
Slides and Video (of Jon’s talk). First 1:28 of audio missing for some reason.
jon
Class 3 – 9/30/15: “John Milton Plays Grand Prix Legends” & Ian Verchere
For some reason Ian’s slides didn’t feed into the video. Everything else seems good.
jon
Law-ification Presentation @ Full Indie Summit 2014
For anyone who wants my take on a broad variety of issues video game developers might be interested in, this video which is a bit over a year old (but only recently posted to YouTube) might be helpful.
https://youtu.be/5e7JoA1YK-Y
jon
Class 2 – 9/16/15: “If Picasso had painted a round object..” & Erin Fields, Richard Tape, Patrick Pennefather
For the lip-readers among you….
The audio did not work even though the microphones did. Perhaps I was being too critical of the U.S. Copyright Office in Atari v. Oman (though in strange twist of fate I did suggest that things might be better for creators had they prevailed). In any event I am posting the video for posterity. The not inconsequential advantage is that Patrick Pennefather’s slides are included right up front.
jon
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